Tom Baker: The Guitar In My Life
$5-$15
Tom Baker — Elegy No. 5
Tom Baker — Possible Lullabies
Tom Baker — The Curse of the Fathers
Tom Baker — Three Movements
Tom Baker — Eleven
Tom Baker — Elegy No. 3
Tom Baker — Circus Music
This upcoming concert, part of the Wayward Music Series, will feature compositions by composer Tom Baker for guitar, spanning the past 25 years. Works for solo classical guitar, guitar and soprano, guitar ensemble, and for solo electric guitar. Several of the area’s most accomplished guitarists (and good friends) perform eight of these works for this celebration of the instrument: Michael Partington, Michael Nicolella, Mark Hilliard Wilson, Satchel Henneman, Cherie Hughes, and the Cornish Guitar Ensemble.
Works will include Green Guitar from 1992, and the most recent (2017) Elegy No. 5, for electric fretless guitar. In between will be Possible Lullabies (for guitar and soprano, based on texts by Garcia-Lorca); The Curse of the Fathers (a solo work exploring the creation of the universe); Three Movements (world premiere) (each movement represents a different type of movement – slalom, butoh, and rapid-eye); Eleven (a work for solo electric guitar dedicated to the great, fictional guitarist Nigel Tufnel); Elegy No. 3 for solo classical guitar from the first book of guitar elegies; and Circus Music for six guitars.
About Wayward Music Series
Each month, Nonsequitur and a community of like-minded organizations and artists present 10 concerts of adventurous and experimental music in the gorgeous Chapel Performance Space at the Good Shepherd Center: contemporary/post-classical composition, free improvisation and the outer limits of jazz, electronic/electroacoustic music, new instruments, phonography, sound art, and other innovative musics.
https://www.waywardmusic.org/